28 Bible Verses about Aging

Gray hair is a crown of glory when it is found in the way of righteousness.

Show respect to the elderly, and honor older people. In this way you show respect for your God. I am Jehovah.

Even in your old age with gray hair I am he, I am he who will support you. I have made you and I will bear your burden (take care of you). I will sustain (support) (strengthen) you and I will rescue you (keep you safe).

Is not wisdom found among the aged? Does not long life bring understanding?

Even when they are old, they still bear fruit. They are always healthy and fresh.

Do not reject me when I am old or abandon me when I lose my strength.

You will come to your grave at a very old age like a stack of hay in its season.

Then he took his last breath and died at a very old age. After a long and full life, he joined his ancestors in death.

Listen to your father who gave you life. Do not despise your mother when she is old.

Grandchildren are the crowns of old men. Fathers take pride in their children.

I will satisfy you with a long life. I will show you my salvation.

He died at a very old age, wealthy and respected, and his son Solomon succeeded him as king.

I said: 'Let days speak, and many years teach wisdom.'

The days of our lives are seventy or eighty years if we are in good health. But the best of them bring trouble and misery. Indeed, they are soon gone, and we fly away.

Teach us to number each of our days so that we may present to you a heart of wisdom.

If you obey me and keep my laws and commands, as your father David did, I will give you a long life.

Remember the days of old. Think about all the past generations. Ask your fathers to remind you, and your elders to tell you.

Aged women likewise should be reverent in behavior and teachers of that which is good. They should not be slanderers nor enslaved to too much wine. They may train the young women to love their husbands, to love their children, to be sober minded, chaste, workers at home, kind, being in subjection to their own husbands, that the word of God will not be (defamed) dishonored.

Aged men should be temperate, serious, sound in mind, sound in faith, in love, and in endurance. Aged women likewise should be reverent in behavior and teachers of that which is good. They should not be slanderers nor enslaved to too much wine.

Do not rebuke (censure) (criticize) an elder, but appeal to him as a father, the younger men as brothers. Treat the elder women as mothers, the younger as sisters, with much honor.

And even when I am old and gray, O God, do not forsake me, until I declare your strength to this generation, your power to all who are to come.

Jehovah has kept me alive, as he said, these forty-five years, even since Jehovah spoke this word to Moses, while the children of Israel wandered in the wilderness. Now I am this day eighty-five years old.

Moses was one hundred and twenty years old when he died. His eye was not dim, nor his vigor abated.

As for yourself, you shall go to your ancestors in peace. You shall be buried at a good old age.

Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with your might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave, where you are going.

I remember the days of old. I meditate (think deeply) (intensely study) on all your activities. I muse on the work of your hands.

He silences the lips of trusted advisers and takes away the discernment of elders.

Honor your father and your mother, as Jehovah your God commands you and your days will be prolonged and things will go well with you, in the land Jehovah gives you.